Yay Soccer!

Author

Gretta Ineza, Sierra Rosado, Lindsay Ward

Published

December 5, 2023

Intro

This is a blog about soccer. Yay!

About Soccer

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Maps

Number of players by country for three leagues – La Liga, Premier, and Bundesliga.

La Liga

# A tibble: 6 × 3
  full_country_name num_players                                             geom
  <chr>                   <int>                               <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Albania                     1 (((20.06396 42.54727, 20.10352 42.52466, 20.185…
2 Algeria                     4 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
3 Argentina                  33 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
4 Belgium                     5 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
5 Brazil                     18 (((-48.48589 -27.76699, -48.55459 -27.81221, -4…
6 Cameroon                    1 (((15.48008 7.523779, 15.3791 7.358154, 15.2459…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from Spain. This is because La Liga is a Spanish league.

Premier League

# A tibble: 6 × 3
  full_country_name num_players                                             geom
  <chr>                   <int>                               <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Algeria                     3 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
2 Argentina                  16 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
3 Armenia                     2 (((45.55235 40.61607, 45.51435 40.59956, 45.478…
4 Australia                   3 (((123.5945 -12.42568, 123.5952 -12.43594, 123.…
5 Austria                     5 (((16.95312 48.59883, 16.94883 48.58858, 16.943…
6 Belgium                    21 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from England. This can be explained by the fact that Premier league is an English league, so many players are English.

Bundesliga

# A tibble: 6 × 3
  full_country_name num_players                                             geom
  <chr>                   <int>                               <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Albania                     1 (((20.06396 42.54727, 20.10352 42.52466, 20.185…
2 Algeria                     2 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
3 Argentina                   4 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
4 Australia                   1 (((123.5945 -12.42568, 123.5952 -12.43594, 123.…
5 Austria                    19 (((16.95312 48.59883, 16.94883 48.58858, 16.943…
6 Belgium                     5 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from Germany. This is because Bundesliga league is a German league.

Networks

Here are networks displaying the goals scored. The arrows point to the away team.

La Liga

Goals scored between teams in La Liga at home games. Each arrow represents the amount of goals a home team has scored on the away team.

Premier

Goals scored between teams in the Premier League at home games. Each arrow represents the amount of goals a home team has scored on the away team.

Bundesliga

Goals scored between teams in the Bundesliga at home games. Each arrow represents the amount of goals a home team has scored on the away team.

Bundesliga - Bayern Munich

Goals scored between Bayern Munich and other teams in the Bundesliga. The arrows from Bayern Munich to other teams represent the goals Bayern Munich scored on that team when Bayern Munich was the home team. The arrows from the other teams to Bayern Munich are the goals Bayern Munich conceded when playing away.

Premier - Manchester

Goals scored between Manchester City and other teams in the Premier League. The arrows from Manchester City to other teams represent the goals Manchester City scored on that team when Manchester City was the home team. The arrows from the other teams to Manchester City are the goals Manchester City conceded when playing away.

La Liga - Real Madrid

Goals scored between Real Madrid and other teams in La Liga. The arrows from Real Madrid to other teams represent the goals Real Madrid scored on that team when Real Madrid was the home team. The arrows from the other teams to Real Madrid are the goals Real Madrid conceded when playing away.

First, we have network connections for three big leagues in Europe: Bundesliga (Germany), La Liga (Spain), and the Premier League (England). We made network connections exploring how teams in these leagues have scored on each other. Teams typically play each other twice in the regular season, one game at each team’s field. Therefore, the arrows are colored by the home team’s goals. For example, the arrow going from Manchester City to Arsenal is the amount of goals Manchester City scored when the game was at the Etihad Stadium (Manchester City’s home field). The arrow going from Arsenal to Manchester City is the amount of goals Arsenal scored on Manchester City when the game was at the Emirates Stadium (Arsenal’s home field).

Since these network connections are a bit busy, we decided to create separate connections for the teams that ended in first in each league at the end of the 2021/22 season. These teams are Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and Manchester City. The arrows represent the same events as mentioned above.

Looking at the network connections for the teams that ended in first, the colors of the arrows show that these teams scored lots of goals on their opponents when they played at home. When they were away, they did not concede many goals.